• That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    I’d love if you capped everything off with what core beliefs does your religion believe in, and what entails one to be a Satanist

    Unfortunately that’s still a hotly disputed issue in the Satanic community. Some are theistic, most are atheistic. Some are conservative and believe might makes right, most are liberal and believe in freedom and egalitarianism. I can’t give you THEE core Satanic beliefs as there are denominations who disagree.

    But the atheistic freedom, humanism, and egalitarianism faction of Satanism is winning the “war” of ideas as that is the human tendancy. In this Satanic faction, the core is that human flourishing guides our morality, evil is the absence of empathy, and we have a moral imparitive to help humanity leave behind superstitious beliefs and embrace rationality.

    And about checking the Bible, I have admittedly never read it front to back.

    Well don’t feel bad about it. Most Christians haven’t read their own holy book which is simultaniously amusing and sad.

    but in my opinion the Bible is a corrupt book

    I personally wouldn’t say the book is corrupt, it’s just a collection of bronze age stories passed down by oral traditions. It’s only when people attempt to apply these stories to the real world that it becomes harmful.

    I shall try to check Satan’s evil deeds and how many and what were they.

    Funny enough, Satan in the Bible has a very different context. Originally, the term Satan meant “opposer” or “accusor” or something similar. It wasnt the name of a specific individual, it was a title. A description of what someone was doing.

    In the story of Balaam and the talking donkey in Numbers 22:21-39, God sends one of his angels to be a “Satan” and block Balaams path. God has sent one of his own angels to be an opposer, an obstical to Balaam.

    And you see the same thing with the story of Job. God isn’t placing bets against a person named Satan, he’s talking to one of his own angels who doubts Job’s faith.

    Strangely enough, the earliest versions of Adam and Eve, the serpent wasn’t actually the devil at all, or even an actual serpent. The serpent was originally used as an insult to call others. It was only through centuries of oral retellings that the person trying to tempt Adam and Eve morphed into an actual serpent, then morphed again into the devil.

    Here’s a helpful link about the 8 different Satans in the bible. https://overviewbible.com/8-satans/

    Satanists often oppose tyranny and dictators. Its in our nature to rebel and oppose, to be an adversary against the unjust. It’s partially why we call ourselves Satanists. Theists hate us for trying to convince people magic and the supernatural doesn’t exist. They can’t prove it does exist, obviously, so they hurl insults and accuisations which we wear proudly.

    It’s sort of like a drug addict going through withdrawls and hating the doctor for trying to cure his addiction. Theists hate us for trying to cure their addiction to superstitious beliefs.

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      11 hours ago

      Thank you for the link and the conversation. I’m actually not Christian, but I do believe in God. I do get blasted on online forums for that occasionally when I discuss it so it was nice to have a normal talk with someone of different belief and expanding my own knowledge. Your welcome to msg me to talk about anything anytime, you make good conversation. May God guide and bless you always